Closing arguments underway in 1979 NYC missing boy trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors are hearing closing arguments at the trial of a man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz (AY’-tahn payts) in 1979.
Defense attorney Harvey Fishbein says prosecutors have not shown that a 2012 confession by Pedro Hernandez was credible.
Fishbein said Monday that there’s no evidence to support charges that he killed a child.
Etan’s body was never found.
Hernandez says on video that he choked Etan in a convenience store basement. He says he put Etan’s body in a bag and the bag in a box and walked it down the street.
The defense says the admissions are the fictional ravings of a mentally ill man with a low IQ.
Fishbein says the real killer is another longtime suspect who was never charged.
Prosecutors say Hernandez’s confession is sound.